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Title Year Ratings Rating
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
History , Nonfiction , Technology , Computer Science , Science , Biography , Business
M. Mitchell Waldrop
2001 1.5K 4.55
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Nonfiction , History , Audiobook , Biography , True Crime , Business , Science
Patrick Radden Keefe
2021 121.3K 4.54
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
History , Nonfiction , Science , Space , Biography , Audiobook , Adventure
Robert Kurson
2018 11.0K 4.53
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Nonfiction , Politics , Health , History , Science , Biography , Audiobook
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
2021 8.2K 4.50
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Nonfiction , Science , Nature , Audiobook , Environment , Biography , Memoir
David Attenborough
2020 32.2K 4.50
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
Space , Nonfiction , Biography , Science , History , Memoir , Autobiography
Michael Collins
1974 6.4K 4.49
A Man on the Moon
History , Nonfiction , Space , Science , Audiobook , Biography , American History
Andrew Chaikin
1994 7.4K 4.49
How To Build A Car
Nonfiction , Biography , Sports , Engineering , Science , Cars , Autobiography
Adrian Newey
2017 11.8K 4.47
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Nonfiction , History , Biography , Military Fiction , Engineering , Aviation , Science
Ben R. Rich
1994 15.2K 4.46
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Nonfiction , Science , Feminism , History , Biography , Childrens , Middle Grade
Rachel Ignotofsky
2016 6.7K 4.44
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
History , Nonfiction , Science , Space , Biography , Audiobook , American History
Jeffrey Kluger
2017 6.6K 4.42
Bad Blood
Nonfiction , Business , True Crime , Audiobook , Science , Crime , Biography , Book Club
John Carreyrou
2018 272.9K 4.41
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Nonfiction , Business , True Crime , Audiobook , Science , Crime , Biography , Book Club
John Carreyrou
2018 272.9K 4.41
Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster
Nonfiction , Biography , Autobiography , Audiobook , Memoir , Science , Nature
David Attenborough
2002 4.4K 4.40
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Animals , Biology , Biography , Anthropology
Robert M. Sapolsky
2001 8.5K 4.39
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Animals , Biology , Biography , Anthropology
Robert M. Sapolsky
2001 8.5K 4.39
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Nonfiction , History , Space , Science , Biography , Memoir , American History
Jim Lovell
1994 9.5K 4.38
Madame Curie: A Biography
Biography , Nonfiction , Science , History , Audiobook , Biography Memoir , Classics
Ève Curie
1937 4.8K 4.37
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Nonfiction , Biography , Nature , History , Science , Biography Memoir , Memoir , Book Club
Will Harlan
2014 3.0K 4.36
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
Picture Books , Biography , Nonfiction , Science , Childrens , History , Mathematics
Laurie Wallmark
2017 1.3K 4.36
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
History , Science , Nonfiction , Chemistry , Biography , Historical , Technology
Thomas Hager
2008 4.3K 4.35
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Nonfiction , Science , Artificial Intelligence , Memoir , Biography , Technology , Audiobook
Fei-Fei Li
2023 3.6K 4.35
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles
Picture Books , Biography , Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Childrens , History
Patricia Valdez
2018 1.7K 4.34
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
Nonfiction , History , Science , Biography , Space , Audiobook , Feminism
Loren Grush
2023 5.6K 4.33
American Prometheus
Biography , History , Nonfiction , Science , Audiobook , Politics , Biography Memoir
Kai Bird
2005 52.9K 4.32
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
Biography , Nonfiction , Science , Middle Grade , Art , History , Nature
Joyce Sidman
2018 2.0K 4.32
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Biography , History , Nonfiction , Science , Audiobook , Politics , Biography Memoir
Kai Bird
2005 52.9K 4.32
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Nonfiction , Medicine , Science , Medical , True Crime , Memoir , Biography
Richard Shepherd
2018 44.6K 4.32
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Nonfiction , Science , History , Biography , Nature , Environment , Natural History
Andrea Wulf
2015 27.8K 4.32
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
Nonfiction , Science , Memoir , Medical , Medicine , Biography , Audiobook
Lawrence Ingrassia
2024 1.1K 4.31
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Nonfiction , History , Science , Medicine , Biography , Medical , Historical
Lindsey Fitzharris
2017 20.6K 4.31
Fermat's Last Theorem
Science , Nonfiction , Mathematics , History , Popular Science , Biography , Historical
Simon Singh
1997 32.3K 4.30
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
Science , Nonfiction , History , Medicine , Medical , Biography , Health
Paul A. Offit
2007 2.1K 4.30
Koko's Kitten
Nonfiction , Animals , Picture Books , Childrens , Cats , Science , Biography
Francine Patterson
1987 1.1K 4.30
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Nonfiction , History , Adventure , Science , Biography , Maritime , American History , Book Club
Gary Kinder
1998 5.6K 4.30
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
History , Nonfiction , Space , Science , Biography , Memoir , Audiobook
Gene Kranz
2000 10.0K 4.30
Fermat's Enigma
Science , Nonfiction , Mathematics , History , Popular Science , Biography , Historical
Simon Singh
1997 32.3K 4.30
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Nonfiction , History , Science , Medicine , Audiobook , Biography , Medical
Lindsey Fitzharris
2022 6.9K 4.29
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Nonfiction , Biography , Science , Nature , History , Memoir , Audiobook
Brantley Hargrove
2018 1.5K 4.29
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Nonfiction , Science , Animals , Nature , Memoir , Biography , Africa
Jane Goodall
1990 3.2K 4.29
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Science , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Biology , Audiobook , Biography Memoir
Walter Isaacson
2021 38.8K 4.28
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Nonfiction , Medicine , Medical , Science , Memoir , Health , Biography
Atul Gawande
2002 51.0K 4.28
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
Nonfiction , History , Space , Science , Biography , Audiobook , American History
Kevin Cook
2021 1.1K 4.27
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Science , Nonfiction , Biography , Physics , Memoir , Autobiography , History
Richard P. Feynman
1985 210.4K 4.27
Flight: My Life in Mission Control
Space , Nonfiction , Biography , History , Science , Memoir , American History
Christopher Kraft
2002 1.2K 4.27
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Science , Nonfiction , Biography , Physics , Memoir , Autobiography , History
Richard P. Feynman
1985 210.4K 4.27
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Nonfiction , History , Anthropology , Biography , Science , Sociology , Race
Charles King
2019 2.3K 4.26
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Science , Physics , Nonfiction , History , Popular Science , Philosophy , Biography
Manjit Kumar
2007 10.2K 4.26
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Science , History , Physics , Biography , Psychology
William Egginton
2023 1.2K 4.26
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Nonfiction , Science , History , Nature , Audiobook , Biography , Environment
Kim Cross
2015 2.2K 4.25